Making my DVD Menu Pages

In the making in my DVD Menu pages, it is vital to make sure all elements related to the genre, therefore putting this into consideration, i kept the dark colour theme of red & black throughout every DVD Menu Page, & the Font i kept red with an effect of seemingly like blood. The images throughout the DVD Menu were fairly dark inititally as i took them at night, however i still touched them up by editing them on Photoshop. I used effects such as brightning & contrasting to create a tense tone, i also de-saturated some slightly to make them appear even darker & slightly black & white. I also changed all colours within some images, in other words with the lasso tool, i highlighted certain areas of the image & by inverse, editing different areas, i.e making most of the image black & white & editing some of the areas in colour to stand out more & to enphasise the red colours.

I have now completed my DVD Menu pages, & i'm very pleased with them. I've made them simple, clear & clean but still effective & scary. I have made pages for; Main Menu, 3 Scene Selections, Audio Set Up, Extras, Subtitles. I took around 300 images, therefore i had to narrow it down & choose the main ones to edit, i narrowed it down to around 20 of the best ones & editted to the nature of Horror. Most Pages were split-screens, where half of the page is a plain background & the other half is an image. The other ones were the Scene Selection pages, which i knew from the start i wanted to make different, i decided to use the style of polaroid images, as i wanted to portray the scene selection pages as a 'crime scene board' & the seen images are for the police as 'evidence' of a mass murder. Therefore in Photoshop i created a polaroid layout & individually added my chosen images inside the polaroids. I'm pleased in how the Scene selections look, they are just how i expected.

Overall, my DVD Menu Pages, i'm happy with & i have kept with the genre Horror through elements throughout the pages. I've kept the colour theme, image tones & layout moderately similar, as i wanted to portray a scary, simple DVD Menu, the clear nature of the DVD Menu i felt would add a creepy effect, to portray a tense atmosphere & loneliness.